| This past June, after the Supreme Court overturned the legal right to an abortion, Jia Tolentino immediately captured the scale of the disaster for reproductive rights in the United States—and offered a darkly prescient view of what was to come. In an essay titled “The Post-Roe Era,” Tolentino wrote, “We have entered an era not of unsafe abortion but of widespread state surveillance and criminalization—of pregnant women, certainly, but also of doctors and pharmacists and clinic staffers and volunteers and friends and family members, of anyone who comes into meaningful contact with a pregnancy that does not end in a healthy birth.” Last week, Tolentino was named among the finalists for the 2023 National Magazine Awards, in the category of Columns and Essays, for this and other vital writing about abortion in America. The nomination was one of seven for The New Yorker, across a wide range of disciplines, including reporting, fiction, photography, video, illustration, and design. Stephania Taladrid is a finalist in the Public Interest category for her comprehensive and deeply felt reporting on abortion in Texas and along the border with Mexico. Luke Mogelson has been nominated in the Reporting category for a collection of his dispatches from Ukraine, which offered a harrowing closeup view of the fighting on the ground, and captured the extent of the suffering endured by the civilian population. In Profile Writing, Raffi Khatchadourian has been nominated for “Light and Shadow,” about how the enigmatic self-taught Canadian painter Matthew Wong, who died by suicide at the age of thirty-five, became one of the most celebrated artists of his generation. Evan Osnos is a finalist in Feature Writing for “The Floating World,” which asks how big is big enough for the billionaire owners of the world’s largest yachts. (Hint: picture a football field.) And the magazine has been nominated in the Video category for two documentary shorts, “American Scar,” by Daniel Lombroso, about the ecological destruction caused by the border wall between the U.S. and Mexico, and “Nuisance Bear,” by Jack Weisman and Gabriela Osio Vanden, which explores the fraught interactions between polar bears and tourists in a remote town in Manitoba. Winners will be named on March 28th. These and the other remarkable works below form a group of instant classics—stories and images that reflect the best of what The New Yorker has always strived to do, and which we hope readers will return to in the years ahead to understand this moment in history and make sense of the larger, timeless questions of the human condition. Explore a selection of our 2023 nominees: | 
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